Beautiful recording studio in Tavernago, Elfostudio, created by Italian Architect Romolo Stanco. According to the designer, the studio aims for a kind of jazz fusion effect…ah, whatever, but it’s pretty. (Incidentally, if you’re in the market for a music studio in Pittsburgh, you should go here, Dana will take good care of you.)
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Categories: Architecture · Music · Pittsburgh
Tagged: Dana Cannone, Dezeen, Elfostudio, Italy, Music, Recording Studios, Romolo Stanco, Tavernago, The Church Recording Studio
There’s been a lot of discourse (if one can call it that) recently about the shift from more functional, utilitarian appeals in advertising and branding towards those more focused on emotional, “instinctual” dimensions. To a psych geek this can seem a bit obvious from the trying to sell stuff side, but it also speaks to the consumptive saturation at play in many “developed” regions around the world. If our basic needs are always met, how else can we attempt to fill those gaping voids where our souls used to be, than by associating products and services with somewhat fantastical and largely unreachable desires? (Sorry, I had to…)
Well, all this concentration on emotions naturally leads sellers into the abstract and visceral worlds of good art and design…So, we get some pretty stores and products for all our trouble. Check out the first London outlet for Aesop, a skincare line from Australia. The store was designed by Ilse Crawford, and is both stellar and exquisite…like your humble narrator.
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Categories: Accessories · Art
Tagged: Art, Dezeen, Commerce, Decadence, The End of Times, Aesop Skincare, Aesop Australia, Ilse Crawford, Studio Ilse
Really pretty table from Based Upon across the Atlantic, complete with real butterflies embedded in resin. I like it.
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Categories: Furniture
Tagged: Based Upon, Butterfly Table, Dezeen, Furniture
I would totally live in this! Concept house designed by Victor Vetterlein incorporates wind turbines, paint made of solar cells, and rainwater collection…in theory, due to the whole “concept” thing, of course. Tons more info at Dezeen.
Categories: Architecture · Science · Technology
Tagged: Architecture, Clean Energy, Dezeen, Houses...kinda, Victor Vetterlein
I can’t say much more. I really like this, but would definitely stick with the fish: Mathieu Lehanneur’s “refrigerator-aquarium” called Local River, currently at Artists Space in NY.
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Categories: Art · Event · Home
Tagged: Art, Dezeen, Art Installation, Aquarium, Refrigerator Aquarium, Local River, Mathieu Lehanneur, Artists Space Gallery
Designer Tord Boontje designed this exhibition to show off the Italian furniture manufacturer Moroso at Milan’s Furniture show. Spooky and nice.
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Categories: Architecture · Art · Event · Furniture
Tagged: Art Installation, Dezeen, Furniture, Milan Furniture Show, Moroso, Tord Boontje
And what could be more exciting. Actually, I have to use a drain cover to wash my hairy beast of a dog. Joana Meroz made em pretty, which is all the better.
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Categories: Art · Home
Tagged: Dezeen, Home Stuff, Drain Covers, Joana Meroz
The Spanish artist/designer Nacho Carbonell exhibited a bunch of wild…furniture, I guess… at Spazio Rossana Orlandi. Check ‘em:
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Categories: Art · Furniture
Tagged: Art, Dezeen, Evolution Chairs, Furniture, Nacho Carbonell, Spazio Rossana Orlandi
This house, titled 63.02° in reference to the angle of the facade of the house, was built by Schemata Architecture, and is pretty and ultra-modern. Though the house looks a little too cement for me (I like wood and glass more), the Cherry Blossoms certainly soften the image.
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Categories: Architecture
Tagged: Architecture, Japan, 63.02 Degree House, Schemata Architecture, Tokyo, Dezeen
